Cultural competence is critical to successful health outcomes. When care is delivered with sensitivity to and understanding of cultural influences and differences, it can improve the experience and outcomes for all stakeholders, including people, communities, healthcare staff, insurers/payers and the entire U.S. healthcare ecosystem.
New programs like Hospital-at-Home and Acute-Care-at-Home are giving health systems an opportunity to reduce inpatient traffic and give patients the care they need in their own homes.
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Recent CMS and CDC rulings offer hope that health systems will show more love for innovative treatments like digital therapeutics and virtual platforms.
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The Rhode Island School of Design's Center for Complexity has developed a new tool that helps non-English patients accurately describe their pain for emergency care providers.
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